This has little to do with trade — in fact, the US had a $6.8 billion annual trade surplus with Brazil last year — and everything to do with geopolitics.
Read more...How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Read more...More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.
Read more...On top of the leverage bombs in the US and other financial systems, the embrace of crypto, specifically stablecoins, is another systemic risk
Read more...Like it or not, advanced economies are committed to immigration to counter low birthrates. Better refugee integration reduces the friction.
Read more...A high level review of the US efforts to project power in space and the actions/reactions of Russia and China.
Read more...The hit parade, as in the hit piece parade, on New York City mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani, is still in high gear.
Read more...The GOP’s huge new tax and spending law will make it even harder for U.S. companies to compete in clean technologies.
Read more...EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen is (finally) in some trouble. How much of a sweat does she need to break to survive?
Read more...As the war in Ukraine moves toward an ugly conclusion unfavorable to the U.S., I anticipate the appearance of a common propaganda phenomenon following lost wars: the stab in the back. This is a propaganda tactic in which military defeat is attributed to domestic treachery undermining the heroic efforts of the military. The bellicose elements […]
Read more...The war in Gaza has “created a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild Gaza from first principles . . . as a secure, modern prosperous society.”
Read more...Increased AI competition worsens surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation—threatening privacy, autonomy, and democracy.
Read more...How Russophobia has been long in the making and continued to color international relations.
Read more...The UK’s clever scheme to enlist rabid chihuahua Estonia to harass Russia in the Baltic theater.
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